Walkable Jenkintown

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

Looks like the Borough systematically violates the Sunshine Act, especially with issues they know will be opposed by the residents. More coming soon.

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

The Borough just passed regulations banning single-use plastic bags (and straws). Meanwhile in our household, this is a sampling of what we bring home on a regular basis.

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

Sean has a message for Jenkintown taxpayers. #firekilkenny

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

@Sierrathefurry @TrashPanda08x And it was all privately owned.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Schools are quick to blame everyone and everything but themselves for the failures of American education. To them, every bad teacher is the exception and every bad parent is the rule.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

@the_transit_guy We had one that was the envy of the world until the federal government regulated it out of existence.

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @CompletedStreet]

Tampa, like almost every other major city in the U.S., used to have an extensive trolley car system.

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

@nfergus @ksadjadpour The French in 1944 might take issue with that.

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

@JoshShapiroPA School taxes are making my family want to move. What are you doing about THAT?

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

American cities give up more than $5 billion a year in foregone tax revenue because of downtown highways, a new report says https://t.co/aF6C6Rxb5D

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

@AngelMD1103 I knew a diner owner who expelled a customer for complaining that her bagel wasn't "round enough."

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

Look up “coming to the nuisance.”

[Kat Kanada 🏴 @KatKanada_TM]

Toronto man leaves municipal workers speechless when he gives a Taxpayer Acknowledgment where he explains that their entire bloated bureaucracy is funded by the noble Canadian Taxpayer.

GOLD! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

🔊🔊🔊

[Dion @2024dion]

To give you a sense of what a disaster inner ring freeway loops can be here's the Kansas City Loop overlaid on other American CBDs🧵

Midtown Manhattan

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Fully illegal to build towns like this in the United States but Americans pay a lot of money to visit them.

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

@lordhades @DeItaone More housing creates affordable housing.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

I own a small bakery. Business has been slow. Rent is up. I was thinking about closing.

Last Friday, a teenager came in. He looked nervous. He counted out change for a cookie. He was short 50 cents.

"It's okay," I said. "Take it."

He ate it at a table, looking at his math homework. He looked stuck.

I used to be a math tutor.

I walked over. "Quadratic equations?"

He nodded. "I don't get it."

I sat down and helped him for 20 minutes. He got it. He left smiling.

The next day, he came back with two friends. They bought cookies.

The day after that, five kids came.

Apparently, he told the school, "The lady at the bakery helps with homework."

Now, my bakery is the after-school hang-out spot. It's loud. It's messy. There are backpacks everywhere.

Yesterday, I found a note in the tip jar. It was wrapped around a $20 bill.

"Thanks for helping my son pass math. A Mom."

I'm not closing the bakery.

I think I finally found my purpose.

It's not cookies. It's community.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247]

https://t.co/cD9Q8hNazh

[Walkable Jenkintown @WalkJenkintown]

Very much needed in Jenkintown.

[Dan Proft @DanProft]

There is no more powerful, legitimate political weapon than well-executed ridicule.

This brilliant dude should take his act from Durham, NH, to every state legislature and town council in the country that behaves similarly. I could keep his schedule booked for years in Illinois alone.

[Bruce Fenton @brucefenton]

Our Town Council keeps raising taxes.

So I showed up with an English Lord’s wig to speak in *favor* of taxes.

“If you can’t pay your taxes…don’t be poor.”